Yup, here too. What a royal pain in the rear!!!!!!!!!!!
Definitely causing a huge amount of traffic.
Thanks,
Samantha
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Johannes B. Ullrich wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:16, Deb Hale wrote:
> > This is the first time I have seen anything that says that the worm
> > ("nachi", "welchia", or "msblast.d") is bad. According to this write up the
> > "Scanning by the new worm is causing denial of service conditions for some
> > organizations."
> > Anyone else heard anything about this?
>> Experiencing it :-(. I had to turn off ICMP processing for the DShield
> database for now. The traffic generated by Nachi is much higher.
> Probably more comparable to the DDOS traffic from Blaster.
>